Tesla experimented with fluorescent and incandescent lighting and even high-frequency arc lighting. This was the 1890s! Tesla also discovered an important principle in electricity through the Tesla ...

This weekend is the birthday of Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-born physicist who was the father of modern electricity. He died in 1943. Along with the concept of alternating current, he was famous for ...

Steve hasn’t updated his website since he was 13, but since there are so many other solid-state Tesla coils drawing hundreds of times more power out there there’s no use testing this theory.

“Voltage claims sometimes get exaggerated,” said Wingate. “The way a Tesla coil works is that an ‘arc channel’ is initially created, with subsequent sparks moving through the channel and becoming ...

If you visited the Giz Gallery this year, you might have witnessed the electrifying (and slightly terrifying) musical spectacle that is ArcAttack. Well, ...

Based on a fun demo used at science centers across the country, the Arc Light features a pair of glowing LED tubes that aren’t actually connected to the lamp in any way. Instead, tucked out of ...

Enjoy discounts of up to 40% off with HP promo codes and coupons for gaming laptops, printers, PCs, and more tech. President Trump’s deployment of more than 700 Marines to Los Angeles ...

Tesla Coils band ArcAttack to perform at Smithsonian Magazine Future Is Here Festival. April 12, 2016 at 12:50 p.m. EDT. The Washington Post is partnering with Smithsonian Magazine for the 2016 ...

Calling all Tesla fans! Electrical engineer Greg Leyh and his team at the Lightning on Demand organization (LOD) in California are raising the funds necessary to build the world's largest twin ...

Tesla’s Tower would be far more powerful than a small, experimental coil tested in a lab. Figure 1 shows the massive tower that was to be a new universal telecommunications system spanning the ...

When you see the singing Tesla coils, it takes a minute to really understand what you're watching. At first, you don't hear the tunes in the crackling of the electricity.

Learn how to build a Tesla coil using inexpensive high-voltage generators and Lego, creating stunning plasma arcs without complex circuits. This Lego Technic MOC includes the primary coil ...